Perspective Quotes

"I try to be a realist and not a pessimist or an optimist."

"From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited."

"I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems."

"I had bad days, and that means somebody else had a great day."

"Something that's a hilarious comedy, for someone else might be a drama."

"A loss is a good learning experience if you take it that way, but it also isn't a win."

"This is just sport for me, nothing more than that."

"Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural."

"My body is just built different. Some people try to look at it as a weakness, but I look at it as a blessing."

"I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game."

"I thought not getting picked in the first round was the end of the world."

"I hate using the word 'dark' for things that are negative."

"I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends."

Nancie J. Carmody

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

Charles Dickens

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

Eric Hoffer

"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."

Alphonse Karr

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."

Carl Sagan

"The days are long, but the years are short."

Gretchen Rubin

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

Søren Kierkegaard

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

Gustave Flaubert

"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."

Henry Miller

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."

G. K. Chesterton

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

Marcel Proust

"I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."

Mary Anne Radmacher

"Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones."

Anne Sophie Swetchine